Wiki is just running out of things to document. They literally have almost anything you can think of. I'm a computer science major and I've wiki'd some really advanced topics that appear on there but hardly anywhere else on the internet.
Maybe they should just close the site because there is nothing left to write about. Of course, we also heard that the patent office should be closed because there was nothing left to invent in the 1800s.
Yes, I know the patent office thing is not true - google "A Patently False Patent Myth," by Samuel Sass for more info.
Now I know I can bank on the stupidity of the american people - we are embracing the invasion of our privacy as a service.
Not just in cars, 3 weeks ago I recieved a change in policy letter from Verizon for my cell phone. It said if I do nothing, they will be able to improve my service by tracking my location and selling that info to 3rd parties. If I wanted to opt out and risk not helping to improve the Verizon cell phone network, then I had to call a number.
How many people receive the same kind of letters everyday and either don't read them or fall for the increased service at the expense of privacy crap.
Sorry, you're the idiot if you think she deserved what she got? RTFA. The security of her connection wasn't the issue. She did it. Even so, don't you think $220k is just a wee bit over the top?
I don't think she deserved what she got at all. I was just repeating what I've heard others on slashdot say when it comes to the average user not being secure - which after rereading my original post, was not made clear.
I also know that it was her and not a security issue, but according to the article she claimed it was a security issue.
I'd like to set up a sting to expose shitty journalists.
No need, of the big three networks, all have been caught fabricating or stretching the truth. Not a George Bush fan, but Dan Rather and the forged national guard document had the most coverage that I can think of.
When ratings are more important that news, journalists don't seem to have a problem reporting the "truth" that will bring the most viewers.
Thomas testified Wednesday that she had never even heard of KaZaA and never used the peer-to-peer file sharing service on her computer.
If I heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times on slashdot - she deserves what she got for having a connection to the internet that was not 100% secure.
I on the other hand feel sorry for people that do not know how to secure their internet connection and open themselves up to people that feel all data should be free no matter how you acquire it.
They are not stopping you from saying anything to anyone. If after you say something that they do not like or do not agree with, they will use their right to refuse you service.
The first amemndment does not protect you from consequences for saying something, it protects your right to say something.
A show as cool as night rider deserves an equally cool car...1985 Yugo. NBC has financial problems and at $3990 and $99 per month it was all they could afford.
I think most of the items you are talking about (VCR, Printer, Cell phone charger) use much less than a fraction of a percent of your total power usage in a normal home. Why focus on making something so trivial a little more efficient? If you turn down your A/C or buy a more efficient washer/dryer, you're going to make a much larger difference than by unplugging devices that use such low amounts of power anyway.
You are correct, but my point about the LEDs and, I think of those that responded about the VCRs and TVs is that collectively, the little things will kill you. Everyone knows about the thermostat, but we know not everyone sets the thermostat back a degree or two to save energy. Hardly anyone thinks about the energy draw of standby items, and even fewer unplug the items.
A study done by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, estimates that residential consumers in the United States spend more than $5 billion annually on standby power _ about 5 percent of all electricity consumed in the country. 5% of our electricity doing nothing for us.
The first place I would look to conserve energy is turning things off as opposed to standby. Televisions use 23% of their annual electricity while in standby, for VCRs that jumps to 50%. http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/info/documents/pdfs/lbnl-42393.pdf So if we turned monitors and computers and wireless routers and printers etc, completely off when we were not using them the savings would likely be significant. As an added bonus your computer can't be a zombie spam bot when the power is turned off.
After standby items, I'd (if it were possible) remove the LEDs from all my electronics. Why does a monitor, computers, router, keyboard, cellphone charger, etc. have green LEDs to let me know that they are on (not standby) while I am using them. I can see a flashing led to alert me that they are in standby so I don't accidentally turn off the item (or a switched diagnostic mode that lights LEDs), but always on LEDs are a waste.
I wonder how much of that 9% is used to light the billions of LEDs that are not needed?
... for the Aurora guys to look at gamer girls on their webcams
what are they asking to see? There is only one part of the body that can prove sex - although in my case, you would need better resolution than a webcam for proof.
Why stop with the OS, why not outlaw bundling of the computer components? Force everyone to install all components-motherboard, HD, video card, etc. Don't allow a case to be sold with a pre-installed power supply. Think how that will open the market.
Why stop with a computer. When you buy a car, why allow tires, lights, sound system, seats, brakes, and the stearing wheel to be bundled with the car? Belts must be sold without belt buckles, shoes without shoe laces or velcro straps, lawnmowers without engines, .
The list is endless in the way we are inconvenienced by having to buy a product that works(ish) right out of the box.
"Radiation similar to your microwave oven? Well that cooks more than the top 1/64th inch of the food."
It is only similar to microwave radiation in the sense that it is electromagetic. It is actually millimeterwaves not microwaves. It works by heating the moisture on/just under the skin and hurts like hell. If you were to wear wet clothing, the clothing would probably get hot (never tried it) and hurt like hell, but only a lot longer. When you step out of the beam, instantish relief.
"We all know..." What are you basing this on??? As a postdoc, I've committed myself to a massive amount of work and I'm certainly not doing it for pay (which is meager), but a LITTLE amount of respect would be nice. I've published a few studies and it was incredibly hard work to do the kind of careful science that gets published. A small amount of scandals and people like you who swallow any sensationalist piece of news out there really cast things in an unfair light. I encourage you to read more scientific literature and actually try and understand how the scientific process works. Do you really think we live in the kind of technological age as we do in spite of "a good portion of all studies" being "bogus" or "based on nothing"? I find this incredibly insulting.
It's a well known fact that 42% of all statistics are made up, and that over 70% of studies use these false statistics. Therefore, 89% of all studies are flawed.
now open office and variants are practically de facto office suites of future.
As long as most contracts from the Federal Government (USA) require electronic deliveries in MS Office format (companies buy MS products to ensure compatibility, they can't risk a document not opening properly), and the Government requires computers, networks, email, etc. to be MS products, MS will do just fine.
Most of those contractors and federal employees will use MS office and other MS products at home because it is what they are familiar with at work. Their kids will use MS Office, and their schools will also - because it is familiar.
Sure there might be a lawsuit here and there when MS forgets to pay their congressman/senator, but as long as the DOJ uses MS products while suing MS for monopolistic practices, buisiness will continue as usual at MS.
It means that more people will read their insidious shit. They ridiculed all of us who challenged the 2004 election results. They've been championing the war on Iraq since before its inception. They're cheerleading right now for war on Iran.
And don't even get me started on their coverage of the war on drugs.
But here you all are, celebrating the fact that your generation's Goebbels is about to become even more destructive than it was before.
Funny that the Fox types constantly trot out the NYT as an example of left-wing bias in the media...
The NYT does have a left-wing bias, and there is nothing wrong with that. Fox News commentary is right-wing, and again nothing wrong with that. The problem is that they both claim they don't have a bias and people that have the same bias typically cannot see that their media outlet of choice has a bias. If you want to be truly informed, you will get your news from both the right and the left, compare the merits of any differences (including stories they choose to cover and those they choose not to cover), and make up your own mind based on rational thought.
That being said, I don't think the original poster is right wing, he is complaining about the positive coverage of the war in Iraq, the positive coverage for a war with Iran and he refers to Goebbels.
"And 10 years from now, the technology will be much smarter. We'll scan a person with one of these things and tell what they're actually thinking."
I can't wait for this. When I am yelling "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" to my kid, I'll actually be able to get a truthful answer(from a machine, not my kid). Most importantly, I will have a clue what my wife is thinking.
They would never pay that wage to locals in any case. If they were somehow forced to pay that level of wage then they would probably prefer to hire Americans and other western educated peoples instead. This is the same reason why unions *always* support minimum wages and high labor standards and it is not out of the goodness of their hearts or their concern for foreign workers (although they would like you to think so).
Thats what the unions want you to believe, however, unions support minimum wage laws for 1 reason. Many union contracts are tied to the minimum wage. When minimum wage goes up, the union workers get a raise even though they are making much more than minimum wage.
I hear you can obtain one of those at your local bookstore. Some other options are things called "atlases" and "globes".
I personally have such as heard such as a reliable source saying that she believes many US Americans don't have maps, and such as Asia, and such as think of the children. So a comment such as yours is wrong.
One of the most credible reasons for poor American election turnout I've heard (after "It won't make a difference") is the fear of such an overwhelming task.
I call BS on the above statement.
Have you ever seen the choices for various lotteries and scratch-off games in most states? Talk about confusing, yet, poor uneducated people throw millions of dollars away every day on this "overwhelming task." They also do it very accurately, and there is a simple mechanism in place to return a ticket with the incorrect numbers and make it right
Then the real kick in the pants is that within 15 minutes of the lottery draw, the state knows exactly how many winners, where each ticket was sold, and the exact amount of the payout and profit to the state. Surely if our most disadvantaged citizens can figure out the lottery, and the state can manage all those scanned sales slips that the person fills out to pick the numbers using a pencil or pen (kind of sounds like a ballot), surely we can have a simple, secure, and accurate voting system.
If that is too much to ask for, maybe we should have a system where 50ish candidates run, and you are required to pick the 6 that you think will win. Rock/Paper/Scissors picks the winner out of the final 6.
4. This ushers in a techno-utopia where your flying car downloads traffic data from the internet and avoids jams automatically, your Skype mobile phone lets you call anywhere in the world for free, and Google brings back Firefly to promote their iPhone-enabled video on demand service.
Also, as your flying car comes crashing out of the sky because you forgot to fill the fusion chamber with beer and banana peels, it instantly IMs all your contacts that your funural is scheduled for this Saturday at 11AM. With the convergence of technology, your car would also upload the video of your impending demise to youtube so that everyone can see that you were a dumbass.
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Maybe they should just close the site because there is nothing left to write about. Of course, we also heard that the patent office should be closed because there was nothing left to invent in the 1800s.
Yes, I know the patent office thing is not true - google "A Patently False Patent Myth," by Samuel Sass for more info.
How many people receive the same kind of letters everyday and either don't read them or fall for the increased service at the expense of privacy crap.
I also know that it was her and not a security issue, but according to the article she claimed it was a security issue.
When ratings are more important that news, journalists don't seem to have a problem reporting the "truth" that will bring the most viewers.
I on the other hand feel sorry for people that do not know how to secure their internet connection and open themselves up to people that feel all data should be free no matter how you acquire it.
The first amemndment does not protect you from consequences for saying something, it protects your right to say something.
A study done by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, estimates that residential consumers in the United States spend more than $5 billion annually on standby power _ about 5 percent of all electricity consumed in the country. 5% of our electricity doing nothing for us.
I wonder how much of that 9% is used to light the billions of LEDs that are not needed?
I call dibs on the greatly improved Web 5.0!
Wet cloth got very hot. We're engineers and technicians, not doctors, so I can't answer your question about eyes.
Yes I do know that it was a stupid analogy. It was a joke. I deeply apologize to all those offended.
Why stop with a computer. When you buy a car, why allow tires, lights, sound system, seats, brakes, and the stearing wheel to be bundled with the car? Belts must be sold without belt buckles, shoes without shoe laces or velcro straps, lawnmowers without engines, .
The list is endless in the way we are inconvenienced by having to buy a product that works(ish) right out of the box.
Good point, I'll check it out tomorrow and let you know.
It is only similar to microwave radiation in the sense that it is electromagetic. It is actually millimeterwaves not microwaves. It works by heating the moisture on/just under the skin and hurts like hell. If you were to wear wet clothing, the clothing would probably get hot (never tried it) and hurt like hell, but only a lot longer. When you step out of the beam, instantish relief.
You'd think a postdoc would have known this.
Most of those contractors and federal employees will use MS office and other MS products at home because it is what they are familiar with at work. Their kids will use MS Office, and their schools will also - because it is familiar.
Sure there might be a lawsuit here and there when MS forgets to pay their congressman/senator, but as long as the DOJ uses MS products while suing MS for monopolistic practices, buisiness will continue as usual at MS.
That being said, I don't think the original poster is right wing, he is complaining about the positive coverage of the war in Iraq, the positive coverage for a war with Iran and he refers to Goebbels.
Have you ever seen the choices for various lotteries and scratch-off games in most states? Talk about confusing, yet, poor uneducated people throw millions of dollars away every day on this "overwhelming task." They also do it very accurately, and there is a simple mechanism in place to return a ticket with the incorrect numbers and make it right
Then the real kick in the pants is that within 15 minutes of the lottery draw, the state knows exactly how many winners, where each ticket was sold, and the exact amount of the payout and profit to the state. Surely if our most disadvantaged citizens can figure out the lottery, and the state can manage all those scanned sales slips that the person fills out to pick the numbers using a pencil or pen (kind of sounds like a ballot), surely we can have a simple, secure, and accurate voting system.
If that is too much to ask for, maybe we should have a system where 50ish candidates run, and you are required to pick the 6 that you think will win. Rock/Paper/Scissors picks the winner out of the final 6.